Quote of the Week – 8/26/09
“If it’s not butter, then what is it?” – Overheard in my kitchen after daughter number one saw a commercial for “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”. Good observation daughter, but I have a feeling we’d really rather not know the answer.
Bountiful Statue – Photo of the Week 8/26/09
Offering Healthy Bounty
There’s a large fountain in front of the main building at the Italian resort we visited over the weekend. Surrounding the fountain is a collection of Roman-looking statues. Notice, the ideal female is neither too skinny nor too fat – she’s just full and bountiful and offering bountiful, healthy food. I suppose that’s intended to convey a message about the resort. No, not that you’ll be eating healthfully there (nobody walks out skinnier than they arrive after all the food they serve you) but that you’ll be rained on during your stay. We were.
Warm Ice Cream to Fight Global Warming?
Thanks, But I'll Take My Ice Cream Cold
Here’s a scary piece of food biz news. It has been rumored that Unilever is researching the process for making warm ice cream to reduce the carbon emissions wasted during transport of cold ice cream. However, Unilever denies the rumors, thank goodness for that. Wasn’t it enough to have cryogenically frozen ice cream with dippin’ dots? Warm ice cream takes the Franken-cream concept just a little bit too far. I don’t care how much they say it might taste and feel the same as regular ice cream once it has been frozen in my freezer at home. I don’t believe them. And I don’t want to know what they did to the molecules of my ice cream to make this concept work. Sorry, my need for green products is outweighed by my need for natural, and I have a tough time believing that the process in that lab will be very “green” either. Sounds like another marketing scheme to me.